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Tiffins ( Indian ) for best bargain lunch I would not touch with a pole. Too much hype and too little authenticity. Nothing Indian about it except the uncook like taste of its sauces and sweetishness of it., MSG comes to mind.
There are better bargain Indian lunches. Of course if you are a lazy SOB and rather stay put on ur butt then walk a block go for it, it does leave you full like a fool.
I give credit to its owner ( a Wharton grade ) whose marketing skills bar none is what makes the college a rave, another "Quiznos" franchise in the making.
But calling it Indian Cuisine....pluzze.

oh please.

these guys aren't beekeepers. Anyone who has ever kept a hive can see in a second that those guys have had that hive for a few weeks at most. My father is a beekeeper in Brooklyn who has been doing it for about 10 years, and I showed him this video. He rolled his eyes and went to do something more productive than watching a couple self-satisfied hipsters wax philosophical about a passtime they know nothing about.

Further to my previous comment, I should add that I like the idea of urban beekeeping, if it were not unlawful. I've read that one theory behind the colony collapse disorder that's recently decimated commercial hives is that their bees' foraging is too limited, which perhaps leads to a weakened immune system. I can only imagine that, in contrast, Brooklyn bees are some tough suckers.

"One got stuck in my rattail and stung me,"

this sentence, wrong on many levels.

DiNic's was severely disappointing. It has absolutely nothing on Tony Luke's. Read more.

If these subs are anything like the philly steak I just got ripped off for then it will look like a heavy crust...too much cheese and a hint of the so called steak and 3 sliced mushrooms with a super thin slice or 4 of the green bell pepper looking stuff

I got to see this (for free!) in an advance screening ... The film is a bit of a re-hash of "Omnivore's Dilemma" and "Fast Food Nation" ('Omnivore' author Micheal Pollan is interviewed in the film, as was Joel Salatin, owner of Polyface Farms, who was interviewed in Pollan's book). I would say that this film is the equivalent of "An Inconvenient Truth" for food production (The production company behind this film actually produced "AIT" as well). The film defenitely aspires to the dramatic, especially during the opening title page, with businessmen with briefcases walking through a blackened field towards factory machines (evil., evil!)

Still, the film does provide many eye-opening scenes that are dramatic... huge cattle farms .... images of dead and/or diseased cows and chickens. There ARE some scenes of inside the slaughtering houses in this film (but thankfully, not too many scenes, and the film does prepare you before showing anything too gruesome). There is an un-intended (or is it?) effect of the scenes inside the slaughter-houses: The film is rated PG, meaning it is acceptable for young viewers, even though some of these images are disturbing. But think - these images are from our food production model. Shouldn't our food production methods be able to be seen by anyone? Is meat processing something that has to be rated R? This relates back to one of the film's primary themes: we would all change our eating habits if we really understood the source and production of our food.

I wouldn't say the film is necessarily a "hatchet job" ... it squarely points the finger at large agra-businesses and government agencies, but that's because they are an easy target: They DO a lot of the bad stuff that the film claims they do, and they try very hard to keep information about their business below the public radar.

Overall, I though the film was very good and eye-opening ... It has made me and my wife think about our food purchases when we go grocery shopping, so this last week instead of buying our groceries at our local "bargain warehouse" grocery store (WinCo ... if you are from the NW, you know WinCo...), we tried getting our groceries from the local farmer's market and Whole Foods. It was more expensive, but when it comes to our food and our health, we both decided that this was important. The film also states at the end of the film some statistics on how you can change the environment and food production model, including such ideas as "buying organic", "buy local", "buy in-season only produce", etc. The tough part is that many people simply do not have the funds to purchase organic or local foods (the film interviews a family of four on food stamps, who finds it cheaper to feed their family a dinner from the dollar menu at McDonald's than it is to buy just a few vegetables). They ARE more expensive ... part of the reason is our skewed farming methods, and the laws that protect and favor industrial food production. But like the film suggests, if we, as a public, change our eating and buying habits, businesses will have to follow suit if they want to keep our business.

I give this movie 4 out of 5 stars.

It is definitely a documentary worth seeing, yet I can't seem to understand why in NYC, it is only shown at a small theatre that doesn't even accept credit cards or online orders.

No, food doesn't make you diabetic, poor food choices and excessive consumption make you diabetic. Urban life makes this utopian view of free range, organic, and local an impossibility. Where can you get enough locally grown food to feed New york cities entire population? Think of the new flu virus, a blend of human, avian and human flu viruses, only possible when animals and people mingle freely. Skip coffee, tea and spices, none of those are local.

If you go see the film, you owe it to yourself to visit the site www.SafeFoodInc.com . There is another side to this story and if you are serious about food, you should be open to it.

Our school had dominoes pizza every month. Kids were ecstatic for that and that day saw the most fights occur out of every month. True Story.

has anyone noticed how much thinner Paula looks lately? Maybe she finally has to watch her fat intake! I for one won't be eating fried lasagna, deep fried mac&cheese, fried butter balls or any of her other heart stopping recipes but she is a fun lady to watch and an animal lover. I just hope she doesn't feed this food to her dogs, it might be considered animal cruelity.

Definitely over the top but i've had John Fleer's fried mac and cheese and it was divine... not greasy...beautiful.